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On the smokescreen of AGI, and fighting for workers in the age of Trump and the tech oligarchy
Plus, protestors demand Amazon ditch its ICE contracts on the national day of protest.
 • Brian Merchant
The lines have been drawn
Silicon Valley must decide which side it's on
 • Brian Merchant
What Trump really wants with AI
Trump's AI agenda is often described as a push for deregulation; an effort to cut red tape so AI companies can innovate. In truth, it's a big government…
 • Brian Merchant
Abolish the senses
How the post-truth politics of Donald Trump and Elon Musk engineered the brutal, unpopular ICE occupation -- and what the resistance is actually about.
 • Brian Merchant
Busy
One bleak possible future for life after the AI bubble bursts
 • Brian Merchant

December 2025

The best books, films and TV about AI + tech in 2025
The Great Blood in the Machine Guide to All Media
 • Brian Merchant
There has to be a way
On the future of art and labor in the age of American AI and authoritarianism.
 • Brian Merchant
"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.
 • Brian Merchant
A code red for AI
Sam Altman issued a 'code red' for OpenAI. Meanwhile, political fault lines are widening in the GOP in Washington, and the public is protesting its…
 • Brian Merchant
Journalists win a key battle over AI in the newsroom
PLUS: Artists fight for an AI transparency law in the belly of the beast, a Spotify mass deletion event, and an interview with a top video games…
 • Brian Merchant
A bloody Cyber Monday discount
In which Blood in the Machine attempts its first subscription sale
 • Brian Merchant

November 2025

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